Posted by Ellie Mirman on Sat, Jul 18, 2009 @ 08:52 AM
My worlds are colliding in a wonderful way - my very funny uncle, Eugene Mirman, made this video all about inbound marketing. Enjoy!
Posted by Ellie Mirman on Fri, Apr 17, 2009 @ 07:29 AM
One of the features that I [hated at first but now] love about Firefox 3 is the "smart" address bar that remembers the web pages you've been to along with all their page titles - so if you start typing the website URL or page title, Firefox pulls up a few suggestions of sites you've recently or repeatedly visited.
Every once in a while, I get a kick out of the suggestions it makes for me, and how smart it's gotten about the sites I visit most frequently.
So here's a look at my Internet - the first suggestion for each letter - from A to Z.
A: amazon.com
B: blog.hubspot.com
C: citicards.com
D: digg.com
E: elliemirman.com
F: facebook.com
G: gmail.com
H: hubspot.com
I: inboundmarketingsummit.com/agenda
J: jetblue.com
K: hubspot.com/website-redesign-kit
L: linkedin.com
M: maps.google.com
N: netflix.com
O: onstartups.com blog article
P: pandora.com
Q: hubspot.com/customer-case-studies/?Tag=quote
R: rebeccacorliss.com
S: search.twitter.com
T: twitter.com
U: unionstbrooklynbandb.com
V: vcall.com
W: weather.com for my zip code
X: [random yahoo login page]
Y: youtube.com
Z: zazzle.com/hubspotgear
Photo by shibainu
Posted by Ellie Mirman on Tue, Jun 10, 2008 @ 06:13 PM
This week has been quite the whirl-wind (even though it's only Tuesday). I was at the MarketingProfs B2B Forum in Boston, which turned out to be quite a blast. I got to spend two full days with all marketers talking about topics I find really interesting (and happen to address in my job) like blogging and social media.
What was also great is that I finally got to meet some of my "virtual friends" if you can call them that. Meaning people I've spoken with over e-mail, followed on twitter, or whose blogs I've read. Turns out that (1) they're amazingly nice in person, (2) it wasn't weird to "know" them before I actually met them, and (3) oh, they're more than just a floating twitter head.
The second point is actually what baffles me. These are people I "met" online, had conversations with online, and by the time I actually meet them in person, I already know what they look like and what they've been up to, but it's not weird.
On top of that, I felt "at home" with this crowd. We got to talk about marketing and social media, but it wasn't really work-related - it was actually just a group of people talking about a common interest. So what if it was a little geeky. Oddly enough, I don't get a lot of opportunities like this. I'm one of two marketing people in my office right now, and I don't yet have many "industry" or "peer" contacts - most of my friends are in odd jobs or in graduate school and most of my business contacts either aren't in marketing or haven't embraced social media. Gosh who knew I'd turn into such a marketing and social media geek? Well at least I'm not alone.
And for those of you who haven't met me, and in case you want to recognize me at the next social media meet-up:
